Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why Economists Are Better Than Markets at Telling You How the Economy Is Doing – Bloomberg
- Crude Plunges Another 2% | Bespoke Investment Goup – bespokepremium.com
- Oil Crashes To $41 Handle After Surprise Inventory Build, Production Rise – Zero Hedge
- Why aren’t there more women fund managers? – Investment News
- Globalisation backlash 2.0 – The Economist
- How Do You Buy Distressed Shale Assets? Carefully – Institutional Investor
- George Soros rises again – Forbes
- Maybe Negative Bond Yields Are a Sign of Prosperity – Bloomberg
- A Brief History of (In)equality – Project Syndicate
- US-led globalism is dying with the TPP – FT
Americas:
- ’Treason’? Critics savage Trump over Russia hack comments – Politico
- How Donald Trump Turned Republicans Into the Party of Russia – The Atlantic
- Have we stopped to appreciate how crazy Donald Trump has gotten recently? – VOX
- Trump to look at recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, lifting sanctions – Politico
- It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans – Business Insider
- By November, Russian hackers could target voting machines – Washington Post
- Why Putin Prefers Trump – Politico
- Why Democrats and Republicans Need to Talk About Affordable Housing – City Lab
- U.S. Expands Program to Track Secret Buyers of Luxury Real Estate – NY Times
- Fed Leaves Door Open to Move as Soon as September – WSJ
- Trump Seeks More Foreign Guest Workers For His Companies – BuzzFeed
Europe:
- German 30-year Bund hits lowest yield on record in auction – Reuters
- The Real Paranoia-Inducing Purpose of Russian Hacks – NY Mag
- Meet The EU’s New Chief Brexit Negotiator – Buzz Feed
- Brexit is hitting the economy hard – negative interest rates could be next – The Guardian
- Making a Killing: The 1.2 Billion Euros Arms Pipeline to Middle East – Balkan Insight
- UK economic growth sped up ahead of Brexit vote – BBC
- How do you solve a problem like Italy’s non-performing loans? – FT
Asia:
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- North Korea gave a glowing endorsement of Donald Trump in the US election – Quartz
- Trigger-Happy Stock Traders Show Why Regulation Is Hard in China – Bloomberg
- China may be holding Japanese man, possibly for spying: diplomatic source – Japan Times
- Just How Big Is China’s External Surplus? Measurement Matters – Council on Foreign Relations
- Abe’s Unusual Stimulus Unveiling May Be Directed at the BOJ – Bloomberg
- China box office falls after subsidy cuts – People.cn
- China Wrestles With Wage Dilemma – WSJ
- China Stocks Tumble on Report of Wealth Management Product Curbs – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Hedge Fund LIM Wins Vote to Shut Aussie Manager’s China Fund – Bloomberg
- Peter Martin: Coal is behind the attacks on wind turbines. It’s fighting for its life – The Age
- Josh Frydenberg: Australia’s use of coal is falling ‘and that is not a bad thing’ – The Guardian
- I spend my time writing about the economy, but the climate data hits me right in the gut | Greg Jericho – The Guardian
- Malcolm Turnbull rejects Julie Bishop’s argument on Kevin Rudd’s UN bid – The Guardian
- NSW man wins Pacific island resort in raffle – ABC
- Hepatitis C could be eliminated as public health threat – ABC
- The dramatic demise of Eagle Boys Pizza shown in new data – The SMH
- ABC should partner with Netflix to raise revenue, says Michelle Guthrie – The Guardian
- Thousands of commuters miss out on huge public transport savings – Brisbane Times
- Working in the office is as bad as smoking, study finds – The SMH
- Young WA shearer sets personal record shearing 500 sheep in one day – ABC
- Australia’s rental market is stuffed – CP Economics
- Brexit May Be About to Give Australia a Population Boost – Bloomberg
- Cheap and clean: Australian company creates hydrogen with near-zero emissions – The Guardian
- Surviving the off-the-plan finance crunch – The AFR
- Lenders blacklist ‘non-genuine’ savings – The AFR
- Super reforms could hit half of all SMSFs – The AFR
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Auckland becoming the City of Broken Dreams for first home buyers – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- Office workers must exercise for an hour a day to counter death risk – The Telegraph
- The Human Toll of Terror – NY Times
- Get Off the Happiness Hedonic Treadmill – Behaviour Gap
- The waste mountain of coffee cups – BBC